Hannah Laurens (violin) and Tom McCoy (piano) play Röntgen, de Leeuw and Kes

Hannah Laurens studied at the Junior Department of the Utrecht Conservatory from the age of 11 and completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (BA and MA). As a soloist, she won 2nd prize in the National Dutch Violin Competition for the under 17s, gave performances of the Mozart 5, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concerti, and performed live on Dutch radio and television. Hannah plays a Montagnana/Cerutti violin, Cremona, dated 1740/1880.

Tom McCoy read Music at the University of Bristol, majoring in piano performance, before continuing his studies with an MMus at Royal Holloway, writing his dissertation on the harmonic language of Rachmaninoff. From 2006, Tom worked at the Marlborough School, Woodstock, where he led the choir on foreign trips and directed the music for numerous concerts and shows. In addition to performing with Hannah, Tom teaches piano at Stowe, Oxford High and Kingham Hill, and is the Director of Music at St Martin’s Church, Bladon.

Free recital with retiring collection.